st: New version of -factmerg- on SSC

Thanks yet again to Kit Baum, a new version of the -factmerg- package is
now available for download from SSC. In Stata, use the -ssc- command to
do this, or -adoupdate- if you already have an old version of -factmerg-.

The -factmerg- package is described as below on my website. The new
version has been upgraded to Stata Version 11, and now requires the
Stata Version 11 -sdecode- package )also downloadable from SSC) in order
to work. It therefore now decodes factor values with all the power of
-sdecode-, including exponent substitution. This will be especially
useful for merging continuous factors, as used in the reference-spline
models enabled by the SSC package -bspline-.

Users of Stata Versions 10, 9, 8 and 7 who wish to download the old
Stata Version 10 and Stata Version 7 versions of -factmerg- can still
download them from my website. In Stata, type